They both have pursued further integration with the larger global economy, but (mostly) the U.S. keeps them from doing so via overwhelming sanctions and the Cuban embargo.

“Stalin did nothing wrong” posts. Where are those, exactly?

We criticize Stalin plenty. We just don’t buy that he ate babies and murdered innocent farmers with his bare hands.

Comrade and I met a Nicaraguan gusano at a BLM rally whose family apparently still hold political and financial power over swathes of Central America. He was an actual goddamn psychopath. He said he was there because he was interested in the “other side”, and the only thing he was interested in was accumulating as much power as possible. When my comrade asked him why he was going to school in the states he just replied “Power.” He said the contras were heroes and he wanted to be in the position to control death squads like his father did who “defended his property from rebels”. Just deranged as fuck.

Seemingly the Netherlands was levying anti-socialist scaremongering against them as well as feigning concern over “human rights abuses” and the like. Western powers are starting to learn that their insidious and hypocritical accusations of human rights abuses and calls for regime change / desocialization under threat of economic punishment have consequences… good. Some aspects of the Nicaraguan government I do not like, but it is not my or the Netherlands’ or anyone but the Nicaraguan peoples’ right to decide those things.

Stonewalling the building of a fucking hospital because of concern over “human rights” is damn laughable. Supporting human rights by ensuring people lack the right to healthcare, wonderful.